Pad for gig-saddles and back-bands.



PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906.

A. G. EIOHHORN. .PAD FOR GIG SADDLES AND BACK BANDS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20,1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. ADOLPH G OTTLIEB EIOHHORN, OF ST. LOU1 S,MISSOURI.

PAD FOR GIG-SADDLES AND BACK-BANDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed uly 20, 1904- erial No. 217,415}.

I Patented June 19, 1906.

- To alljwh'om it may concern:

EIOHHORN, a citizen of the United States, re-v siding in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Pad for Gig-Saddles and Back-Bands, of which the following is a specification. The object of my invention is to provide a novel form of gig-pad for gig-saddles and back-bands.

The essential feature'of the invention resides in a novel construction of a pad of this character which is made in sections or separate sides adapted for use independently of each other, also ada ted to be adjusted with relation to each odher to conform to the difierent shapes of horse-saddles or to. relieve animals having sore backs; and the invention consists in the arrangement and construction'of'the parts hereinafter set forth and specifically pointed out in the appended clalm. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of one of the sections of a gigpad constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the invention as applied to a gi -saddle. is a top plan view of the pa Referring to the drawings, the letter'c in 'dicates the sides or sections of the pad, each side being made of a suitable covering, of leather or the like, inclosing padding material arranged as found best in the ractical embodiment of the invention. Eac section ofthe pad is provided along one edge with a transversely-extendin series of eyelets a, and

straps c are secure respectively, in the Fig. 3

outermost eyelets a, lacings I) being threaded through the remaining eyelets and extending from one side of the eyelets to the other when the pads are arranged adjacent each other, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby to adjustably secure said sections together. At the other end of each of the sections a of the gig ad are secured two other straps c, all of sa1 straps being designed to be passed to detaohab pad thereto. The adjustable connection constituted by the lacing b between-the two sections of the pad permits of the adjustment of the sections with relation one to the other, so that they may be made to conform to the back of the horse on which the pad is to be used. My invention also provides, as will be manifest, means whereby I one of the sections may be used without the other when desired, owing to the provision of the two sets of engaging straps c I claim as my invent1on Asa new article of manufacture a gig-pad composed of se arate sides or sections, the adjacent ends 0 said sections being provided with eyelets, straps a secured respectively in the outermost eyelets at the said adjacent ends of the sections, lacin s threaded through the remaining eyelets at t e said ends of said sections and adjustably securing said sections together and other straps c secured to the outer ends of each of said sections.

. ADOLPH GOTTLIEB EIUHHORN. Witnesses:

FRANK B. EOKERT, D. NIGHSWANDER.

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